Who Loves the SunMatt Bissonnette

Though the title of this Canadian drama suggests sun-dappled glory and keening emotion, rest assured its the same old sorry story of Canuck self-flagellation.
Will Morrison (Lukas Haas) is the onetime best friend of successful novelist Daniel Bloom (Adam Scott). Daniel made the mistake of sleeping with Wills wife Maggie (Molly Parker) and then Will made the mistake of skipping town (and his marriage) for the next five years. Yes, these sun-loving men are not especially sharp but writer/director Matt Bissonnette contrives (barely) to get the trio back together at the cottage owned by Daniels parents, where the two men glower at each other while Maggie wishes the boys would get over it.
I know I wished they would get over it. Not only are the male protags the charisma-free lumps generally found moping about the house or uttering wit-free insults but they epitomise a Canuck archetype of selfish male screw-ups who never put it together until its much too late. Though Will eventually gets the moral jump on self-regarding New York transplant Daniel, theyre both doomed to be dopey men who let down the women in their lives, an agonising spectacle seemingly manufactured as a mea culpa for Bissonnettes unspecified transgressions.
Of course, by the time you get to the CanCon element the film has long since committed suicide with inert drama and under-drawn characters that might have seemed melodramatic if this wasnt Canada and somebody knew how to do that sort of thing.
Though its a smooth projection from bitterness to acceptance, its also populated by characters that dont exactly arouse sympathy, not because theyre evil but because theyre determined to do things that are beyond any emotionally mature being.
(Christal)